Introduction: Evolution in the Software Life Cycle, Configuration Management as a Controlling Tool, Configuration Management Process as a Visibility Tool, Configuration Management as a Cost Saving Tool, Requirements for the Success of Configuration Management. (10 hours)
Maintaining Product Integrity: Identifying Configuration Items, Establishing Baselines, Naming Configuration Items. Change Management: Types of change, Configuration Control Boards. (10 hours)
Version Control: The Simultaneous Update Problem, Version Trees, Tools for Version Control, System Description Languages, Metrics. (8 hours)
Configuration Management Planning: Content of Configuration Management Plans, Characteristics of Personnel. RCS, SCCS. (8 hours)

To learn necessity of software configuration management.

To learn configuration management activities.

After reading this subject, students will be able to:
1. Understand different reasons of configuration management.
2. Apply configuration management activities like configuration identification and control.

W. A. Babich, Software Configuration Management, Addision-Wisley , 2006

Jessica Keyes, Software Configuration Management, Auerbach Publications , 2004

R.C. Gunther, Management technology for software product engineering, John Wiley , 2005

S. Kenefick, Real World Software Configuration Management, Apress , 2003